How to offset carbon emissions by using wood pallets

In addition to being reusable and recyclable, the wooden pallets that your organization uses to ship products helps reduce greenhouse gas in our atmosphere. How, you might ask?

Half of a wooden pallet’s net weight is carbon (that was taken in by the tree during its growth phase). Throughout its service life, a wooden pallet stores carbon that would otherwise be re-released into the atmosphere as CO₂, a greenhouse gas.  By storing the gas, a wooden pallet reduces CO₂ emissions which helps to slow global climate change and improve air quality. And now more than ever, we need clean air to help reduce the spread of airborne viruses.

So, whenever you use or replenish your supply of wood pallets, you are helping people and the planet. Want to quantify the difference you’re making? Nature’s Packaging™ developed an EPA-approved carbon calculator to calculate the CO₂ emissions saved per month per ton of wood. You can simply input the number of pallets reused or recycled and the tool calculates the emissions saved as well as the equivalent number of cars taken off the road.

Incredibly, re-using as few as six wood pallets per month offsets the emissions from one car for an entire month! The choice is indisputable. Opting to use, re-use, and recycle wood products like pallets has a great impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Share the news with your corporate social responsibility team and tell your customers, too!

For more information about recycling wood pallets and carbon emissions, please click here. Or, to see how much your supply chain can help or already has helped our environment by reusing or recycling wooden pallets, check out the Carbon Calculator.